Closing terminal/console shuts down the artisan command

[JPeterson2015]

When I run the artisan command to start listening for hashtags and then close my servers console the artisan command stops running...

Is there a proper way to do this?

[felixdorn]

Yes!

You can use nohup for that.

So your command would look like this:

nohup php artisan my:command > /dev/null 2>&1 &

You may replace the &1 with a file path to save error logs if you print some.

You may also use screen if the process is interactive and you need to come back to it.

If you're looking for a more robust solution you can daemonize the process.